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With Musk now in charge of Twitter, there is less of a reason a platform like Parler needs to exist.

by slg 4y ago

bmarquez 4y ago
The types of people who used Parler went to Gab, since Gab has stayed consistently online the last few years.
Pxtl 4y ago
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- eldritch_4ier 4y ago
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  - Pxtl 4y ago
    West literally got banned for posting a swastika. Parler rejected his attempt to buy the platform because of his comments praising Hitler. He embarrassed Trump by bringing Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier to dinner. I mean, the guy is obviously mentally unwell and this has gotten him hoodwinked into a very awful subculture. But still, what would you call that? See also Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer, another guy unbanned by Musk, in his own words: > The goal is to ethnically cleanse White nations of non-Whites and establish an authoritarian government.
    - jakear 4y ago
      It was not a Swastica, it was a blending of a Swastica and a Star of David, accompanied with a "can't we just all have love for one another" message. You may disagree with that, but it's disingenuous to misrepresent the facts to buttress your argument against him. Any decent argument ought to be able to be presented without the use of lies and deceit.
      - jliptzin 4y ago
        As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors that is even more offensive to me
      - wkat4242 4y ago
        Can't we just love Nazis? How about no?
        jakear 4y ago
        You should understand that when a Christian such as Kanye (or indeed Jesus) speaks of "Love", it is a very different concept than the secular interpretation. For one, everyone deserves it: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. - Matthew 5:43-45 "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" - Luke 5:31-32 Even the Old Testament (Jewish bible) has similar themes, though the connotation is decidedly more Old Testament: If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. - Proverbs 25:21-22 Describing the definition of His love is in some ways a Christian's entire life goal^, but at the very least requires more time/space than is here. ^ A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. - John 13:34-35
    - naziunderthebed 4y ago
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- celdon25 4y ago
  Don’t the Nazis use Gab? This is a post about Parler.
  - Pxtl 4y ago
    Ah my bad I didn't realize they stuck to one and not the other, I'd assumed Parler had prettymuch eaten Gab. edit: I'm rate-limited so can't reply. Grandparent poster had said that now that Musk owns Twitter, there's no longer a reason for Parler to exist. I was meaning to point out that, even in Musk's era of lax moderation and resurrecting the most extremist accounts, they still got banned from Twitter very quickly. However, my assumption was that since, of the zillions of right-wing Twitter clones (parler, gab, gettr, truthsocial, etc) most had been out of the news other than Parler, than the extremists had flocked to Parler. If Parler booted them as well and they stuck on Gab, that's my mistake.
    - celdon25 4y ago
      What was the point of your previous comment then?
- naziunderthebed 4y ago
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FormerBandmate 4y ago
Also, Donald Trump has his own version of Twitter in case Musk Twitter is too liberal for you (lol). The only way Parler could have had any niche at all would have been if Kanye bought it, went back on his meds instead of InfoWars, and made it music-focused
- jakear 4y ago
  What is the mechanism by which him being a client of Big Pharma would give his platform more of a niche?
  - andybak 4y ago
    Are you saying that no mental health problems are treatable with drugs? Or are you just saying that his weren't?
  - FormerBandmate 4y ago
    He would actually focus on music and make good music instead of ranting about how Benjamin Netanyahu wants to steal his children and praising Hitler.
    - jakear 4y ago
      If you'd been paying attention you'd see that he has made some good music since the fiasco, though he hasn't released it on traditionally-owned platforms. Also are you referring to a real incident wrt Netanyahu and his children? I have found no information regarding that.

With Musk now in charge of Twitter, there is less of a reason a platform like Parler needs to exist.

by slg 4y ago

With Musk now in charge of Twitter, there is less of a reason a platform like Parler needs to exist.

bmarquez 4y ago

The types of people who used Parler went to Gab, since Gab has stayed consistently online the last few years.

Pxtl 4y ago

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eldritch_4ier 4y ago
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- Pxtl 4y ago
  West literally got banned for posting a swastika. Parler rejected his attempt to buy the platform because of his comments praising Hitler. He embarrassed Trump by bringing Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier to dinner. I mean, the guy is obviously mentally unwell and this has gotten him hoodwinked into a very awful subculture. But still, what would you call that? See also Andrew Anglin of the Daily Stormer, another guy unbanned by Musk, in his own words: > The goal is to ethnically cleanse White nations of non-Whites and establish an authoritarian government.
  - jakear 4y ago
    It was not a Swastica, it was a blending of a Swastica and a Star of David, accompanied with a "can't we just all have love for one another" message. You may disagree with that, but it's disingenuous to misrepresent the facts to buttress your argument against him. Any decent argument ought to be able to be presented without the use of lies and deceit.
    - jliptzin 4y ago
      As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors that is even more offensive to me
    - wkat4242 4y ago
      Can't we just love Nazis? How about no?
      - jakear 4y ago
        You should understand that when a Christian such as Kanye (or indeed Jesus) speaks of "Love", it is a very different concept than the secular interpretation. For one, everyone deserves it: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. - Matthew 5:43-45 "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" - Luke 5:31-32 Even the Old Testament (Jewish bible) has similar themes, though the connotation is decidedly more Old Testament: If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you. - Proverbs 25:21-22 Describing the definition of His love is in some ways a Christian's entire life goal^, but at the very least requires more time/space than is here. ^ A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. - John 13:34-35
  - naziunderthebed 4y ago
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celdon25 4y ago
Don’t the Nazis use Gab? This is a post about Parler.
- Pxtl 4y ago
  Ah my bad I didn't realize they stuck to one and not the other, I'd assumed Parler had prettymuch eaten Gab. edit: I'm rate-limited so can't reply. Grandparent poster had said that now that Musk owns Twitter, there's no longer a reason for Parler to exist. I was meaning to point out that, even in Musk's era of lax moderation and resurrecting the most extremist accounts, they still got banned from Twitter very quickly. However, my assumption was that since, of the zillions of right-wing Twitter clones (parler, gab, gettr, truthsocial, etc) most had been out of the news other than Parler, than the extremists had flocked to Parler. If Parler booted them as well and they stuck on Gab, that's my mistake.
  - celdon25 4y ago
    What was the point of your previous comment then?
naziunderthebed 4y ago
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FormerBandmate 4y ago

Also, Donald Trump has his own version of Twitter in case Musk Twitter is too liberal for you (lol). The only way Parler could have had any niche at all would have been if Kanye bought it, went back on his meds instead of InfoWars, and made it music-focused

jakear 4y ago
What is the mechanism by which him being a client of Big Pharma would give his platform more of a niche?
- andybak 4y ago
  Are you saying that no mental health problems are treatable with drugs? Or are you just saying that his weren't?
- FormerBandmate 4y ago
  He would actually focus on music and make good music instead of ranting about how Benjamin Netanyahu wants to steal his children and praising Hitler.
  - jakear 4y ago
    If you'd been paying attention you'd see that he has made some good music since the fiasco, though he hasn't released it on traditionally-owned platforms. Also are you referring to a real incident wrt Netanyahu and his children? I have found no information regarding that.